Porte-poche. A bag-bearer, poutch-bearer, or poke-bearer; he that carries the scrip, or wallet for a companie of beggers.
Porte-poulet. A bawde, or carrier of loue-messages.
Porte-queuë. A Trayne-bearer to a Prince.
Porter. To carrie, or beare; also, to weare; also, to breed, or bring forth; also, to suffer, abide, indure; also, to sustaine, support, vphold; also (at once) to raise, maintaine, and put forward, a doing horse; also (at Tennis) a ball to rise. Se porter bien. To be in good health. Se porter bien en vn affaire. To behaue, or bestirre himselfe well in a busineße. Porter son bois. Elle porte bien son bois. Looke Bois. Porter vne chemise blanche à. To giue a mornings camisado, or a cold pie for a breakfast, vnto; to rowse with a pox, raise out of bed with a vengeance. Porter coup. To hit home, to attaine vnto that it was directed to, or meant for. Porter coup à la foy. To falsifie a promise, or faith, giuen. Porter droict contre. Directly to ayme at, or flye against; to direct it selfe, or goe leuell vnto. Porter à deux espaules. Jnconstantly to follow sometimes one, sometimes his enemie; or to be of both sides, but true vnto neither. Porter sur ses espaules. Looke Espaule. Porter l'esponge sur. To deface, blot, put out. Porter faux. Ce Ieu porte faux. This Tennis-court is full of false bounds. Porter le flambeau. Seeke Flambeau. Porter la foy. To doe fealtie. Porter des fueilles au bois. To bestow any thing on them that need it not; or of whom (therefore) he shall haue no thanks for it. Porter gré à. To acknowledge a beholdingnesse vnto. Porter Iour. To be transparent. Porter la marotte de. To be the author, or commaunder of. Porter ombre. To giue, yeeld, or cast a shadow. Porter son pacquet. See Pacquet. Porter la paste au four. Il en porta la paste au four. He bore the blame, or burthen of it; twas he that payed, or smarted, for it. Porter vertu. To be of an excellent nature, or propertie; to haue much vertue in it. Ils n'en dirent plus que leurs instructions s'en portoyent. They sayed no more of it then their instructions gaue them warrant for. Il n'est pas si fol qu'il en porte l'habit. He is not so fond as one would take him for, as outwardly he seemes, or as one would thinke him to be by his outside. Qui rien ne porte rien ne luy chet: Prov. He that carries naught lets nothing fall.
Portereau: m. A little, or leße gate adioyning vnto a greater, for a Palace, or House of State; also, a floud-*gate, or kind of sluice, whereby the course of a Riuer is diuerted into a gut on the one side thereof cut out, for the turning of some Mill, &c; also, the name of a street in Orleans. Porte-roolle: m. A prompter of one that makes an Oration, or acts a part, in publicke.
Porte-sac. as Porte-poche.
Porte-semelle. The vpper leather of a Pattin; which we now call a Galoche, though improperly; for the
true Galoche (sayes Nicot) hath no leather belonging to it.
Portestrieux. The plate of a stirrup.
Porte-tablettes. A Pedlar; or one that carries Table-*bookes, &c, to sell.
Porteur: m. A carrier, bearer; bringer, wearer. Porteurs de choesne. Looke Choesne. Porteur de Rogatons. One that carries the Popes Pardons vp and downe a countrey; also, a wandering, and vnlearned Preacher, who bearing about with him some three or foure Sermons in his pocket, and preaching them at seuerall places, gaineth an opinion of great learning among the vulgar. Croyez ce porteur. The contents, or conclusion of a letter of credit; but vsed sometimes in a contrarie sence for) beleeue the lyer.
Porteure d'une femme. A womans burthen, or child-*bearing.
Portier: m. A Porter.
Portier: m. ere: f. Carrying, bearing; whence, Brebis portiere. A bearing Ewe.
Portiere: f. A Porteresse, or woman Porter; also, the boot of a Coach, &c; also, a peece of Tapistrie, &c, hung before a doore; also, the female Salmon; Looke Bortiere. Portinal: m. A Portall.
Portion: f. A portion, share, part, parcell, peece, deale, rate; measure, quantitie, proportion.
Portioniste: m. A Prebend in a Cathedrall Church.
Portionné: m. ée: f. Apportioned, rated, shared; measured out; also, stinted, or whose portion is layed out, or deliuered.
Portionner. To apportion, part, share, deale, measure, diuide, rate out.
Portique: m. An open Porch, Portall, or walking place before a house, couered ouer head by a roofe borne vp with pillars.
Portiuncule: f. An Jndulgence obtained (as some report) by S. Francis, of the Virgin Mary, for the remission of all the sinnes of those, who (en payant) came in at one, and went out at another, doore of a Church dedicated vnto her in Angiers. Le Portoir des vignes. The braunch that beares the grapes.
Portoire: f. Any thing that helpes to carry another thing; as a Voyder, Skep, Scuttle, Wheelebarrow, &c; and particularly, a vessell somewhat resembling a halfe Tub, wherein grapes be carried on horsebacke from a remote Vineyard. La portoire d'une coche. The space of the doore of a Coach.
Portoüoire. A hand-barrow; or, as Portoire. Portüeux: m. euse: f. Full of Ports; belonging vnto a Hauen.
Portugaise: f. A Portegue; a golden coyne worth about iij l. x s. sterl.
Portugalle, & Portugaloise. as Portugaise. Porture: f. A carrying, bearing; wearing. La porture d'une brebis. The little skinne, or filme, wherein a Lambe comes wrapped out of the Ewes bellie.
Posade: f. A lighting downe of birds; a laying downe of a burthen; a breathing, resting, or a resting place; also, a stop made by a horse, aduancing withall his foreparts twice, or thrice. Estre à la posade. To pawse, to repose himselfe; to be still, or sit still.
Pose: f. A pawse, intermission, stop, ceasing; repose, resting.
